GC46WMV Mondo's NAT #252 - Kaskaskia
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 03/01/2013 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 44.464 W104° 39.500 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
             

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Native American Tribes series.

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Kaskaskia

One of several tribes that made up the Illiniwek Confederation, the name in their language translates to "he scrapes it off by means of a tool." Their first contact with Europeans reportedly occurred near present-day Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1667 at a French Jesuit mission station. For years the French Jesuits built missions and ministered to Kaskaskia until the French and Indian War ended. By that time, the Kaskaskia and other Illiniwek tribes were quickly declining. The original population was estimated by early French explorers from 6,000 to more than 20,000. But, by 1764, their numbers had been reduced to some 600, and by 1778 to just a little more than 200.

 The causes of decline included making war with their French allies against other Indian tribes and the inevitable European diseases. In 1769, a Peoria warrior killed Ottowa Chief Pontiac, which brought down upon the Kaskaskia and other Illinois tribes, the wrath of the Great Lakes tribes, and soon the Ottawa, Sac and Fox, Miami, Kickapoo and Potawatomi tribes began to occupy their old tribal range along the Illinois River. What was left of the tribe joined with the Wea, Peoria, and Piankashaw tribes in 1854.  They were then moved to Kansas before again being forced to move to Oklahoma, becoming the Peoria tribe of Oklahoma.

03/17/2019 By Frieza
54th of 55 finds today -- 4:23 p.m.
Out caching in the area on a cold day, visiting from San Jose. This was day 2 of my two week adventure, spent the day caching around the Denver area. This was a quick find with nobody around. Nice hide! TN/LN/SL. Thanks for the cache!

Frieza
Find #19833

03/01/2019 By peace love pi
Stopped by to say happy birthday to this cache. I do appreciate this series. I love reading about the different tribes, I love the coordinates are accurate, and I love that all the caches are maintained. TFTC! All is well with this cache.

09/03/2018 By Mean Kitty
Find #48894

Its been a long hot summer in Texas, I've been trying to get out and do a caching trip a couple of times this summer, but it never worked out. Finally managed to get a week off, and am so happy to be out here in Colorado. The weather if perfect, and there is a load of caches that need my name on Thanks so much for the hide mondou2, I really enjoyed finiding this cache!

09/03/2018 By Geopokemongo
Found with cejamison4 and BVBfan!.... TFTC/SL

09/03/2018 By BVBfan!
Found with cejamison4 and Geopokemongo..... TFTC/SL

09/03/2018 By cejamison4
Found with BVBfan! and Geopokemongo..... TFTC/SL

08/18/2018 By ColoradoA_Team
Happy National Geocaching Day!! This sport has taken our family on so many adventures!! TFTC! ??? ??? ?

08/17/2018 By FeatheredFriends
Still working on a county run. Today I had a few counties in south east Wyoming and across the border into Nebraska to pick up. Then I headed back to Denver for my flight back. I had extra time so I cached around the airport some more picking up a lot of Mondo caches. I signed the logs as FeatheredFriends or as "FF" on the smaller logs to save space. This was my '68th' find for today. Thanks 'mondou2' for a fun time in the area.
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08/17/2018 By Sqweeter
Use to live near a river by the same name. TFTH SL

08/12/2018 By rfmetz
SL. All is good at GZ. Thanks for the history lesson and TFTC.
Bob

07/22/2018 By Aidfuts
Nice quick grabs. TFTF!